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Artificial Magic, Tawny Ventura
Artificial Magic, Tawny Ventura
Senior Theses
This novella by Tawny Ventury emerged from a short story written for a creative writing course on speculative fiction.
Who Is Neil Wells?, Colin Anderson
Who Is Neil Wells?, Colin Anderson
Senior Theses
This creative writing thesis takes the form of a mystery novel by Colin Anderson.
The First Flowers Of Spring, Gretel Valdes
The First Flowers Of Spring, Gretel Valdes
Senior Theses
This creative writing thesis contains a series of poems by Gretel Valdes.
I.
- Pillowtalk
- Autumnal Hues
- Mis Cejas
- Intimacy
- Without You, in San Francisco
- Sundown of Person
II.
- drinking honey with the bees
- The Lady of Crescent Lake
- A Collection of 2 am Thoughts
- Cold Feet
- Another Year of Thankfulness
- My Grandfather’s First Time in the ICU
- For Oregon Where I Have Yet to Fall in Love
III.
- The First Flower of Spring
- A Dandelion Before the Wind
- Weightless
- Aubade to the Other Woman
- To Denica
- Someday Soon
IV.
- Recovery
- Anxiety
- On the first girl I ever kissed
- Drinks I …
The Butte, Natasha Bailey
The Butte, Natasha Bailey
Senior Theses
The Butte is a collection of short stories about a small town in the Pacific Northwest. In these short stories I explore idealistic small-town culture and blend it with the Pacific Northwest’s own (modern) paranormal mythology. This medley of different genre aspects in my stories makes The Butte difficult to label, but ultimately, my goal while writing was to explore various styles and points of view.
The nine stories set in The Butte shift styles on a variety of levels from character switching, point of view (1st person, 3rd person, and omniscient), and formatting (structure and linguistics). These …